!Restored: Critiques Wanted Please!

[Anonymous]

This is the courtyard entering a dentist office I have just finished. Let me know what I can do to make it better. I used Artlantis 2.0, and a couple of touchups in Lightroom.

Justin

[Karl Ottenstein]

Colyer-Lloyd wrote:
Just finished an interior rendering. Comments and critiques wanted

Both very nice, Justin! The interior one feels like we're the janitor coming to clean on Saturday in spite of the excellent quality of space. Lack of interior entourage aside, I think the darkness at the receptionists desk makes the place feel 'closed'. Since I see that you have interior lights in that area, I wonder if this is a result of Artlantis 2's "automatic exposure" feature - which automatically darkens the scene to compensate for the daylight and vice versa?

For me, a magaine askew on a lobby seat, and a person, reasonably lit, and with a phone, computer, etc at the desk would 'make' the scene.

Very good work!

Karl

[Dwight]

Karl wrote:

Dwight wrote:
So if my book had a sub-sub title, it would be "One Book to Rule Them All."

So, does that mean that we'll be calling the book 'my precious' and taking it everywhere with us ... and when it is inevitably time to recycle the book a few years from now, we'll have to journey to Mordor and Mount Doom?

Kermul

Haha. It is an electronic book - a screen coach - meant to sit on screen next to your Artlantis dialogs. I plan to continuously update and expand it to prevent the kind of obsolescence printed books experience. Artlantis is being rapidly developed and I don't want my readers to fall behind.

As for Mordor and Mount Doom… you are making an obtuse reference to Revit, aren't you?

[Thomas Holm]

Karl wrote:
we'll have to journey to Mordor and Mount Doom

And no doubt kill an overwhelming army of orchs too... Perhaps I'd better not buy this book 😉

[Thomas Holm]

Colyer-Lloyd wrote:
Just finished an interior rendering. Comments and critiques wanted!

The flower pot needs water... And in these energy-conscious times, perhaps you should turn off the ceiling lights too...
This one is really outstanding!

[Anonymous]

Ahh Dwight, be wary of criticising your Revit bretheren with references to Mordor - after all they are potential customers!

(or maybe I should say "were potential customers" now that Revit has a new rendering engine....mutter mutter mutter.....?)

[Dwight]

Rendering quality of built-in renderers aside, anyone wants Artlantis for a number of reasons that aren't superficially apparent:

• fast.
• largely self-controlled, unlike impossible-to-control Graphisoft implementation of LightWorks.
• very accurate preview.
• excellent animation camera control with auto-accelerate/decelerate.
• new "postcard" feature allows quick complete scheme material changes and automatically mails your rendering to Mom so she can see how well you are doing in your new job so far away from home so there will be no complaints that you never write.
• Artlantis 3 to have "phone call" feature so on days you lack artistic inspiration, you can simply "phone in" your illustration work. It picks the viewpoint and materials AND also CALLS Mom for you so there will be no complaints that you never call.

The big market for this renderer is SketchUp, and anyone else who wants to make great art without breaking stride.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Dwight wrote:
• very accurate preview.

...except with respect to neon shaders which do not preview even close to how they will render, but they are working on that...

Karl

[Dwight]

Neon very frustrating, thank you for reminding - I have been looking at it so long i forgot. Tiny "Render Zone" option an excellent compromise.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all for the overwhelming responses!

I am in the process of tweaking the interior rendering with the suggestions of entourage, as well as some material changes. I look forward to hearing your comments.

Justin

[Dwight]

It is just such a relief to see something nice from the get-go for once, altho it bears observing that this nice product was after two days of tweaking materials....